Netflix Finally Transitioned to the Cloud. That’s Huge...for Amazon.

Netflix has completed its move to the cloud, according to Fortune. The process, which started seven years ago, means Netflix no longer uses its own data centers to host its video service and will now use Amazon Web Services, which is run by Amazon. The company will also use some Google services for its archives.

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Netflix accounts for about 40 percent of total Internet bandwidth at peak times, ahead of YouTube, which accounts for 15 percent, and Facebook, which accounts for 2.7 percent. "We rely on the cloud for all of our scalable computing and storage needs—our business logic, distributed databases and big data processing/analytics, recommendations, transcoding, and hundreds of other functions that make up the Netflix application," a Netflix blog post reads.